Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 173
... friends , and parted from the author of this narrative with tears in his eyes . He was furnished with fifteen guineas , and informed , that they would be sufficient , not only for the expence of his journey , but for his support in ...
... friends , and parted from the author of this narrative with tears in his eyes . He was furnished with fifteen guineas , and informed , that they would be sufficient , not only for the expence of his journey , but for his support in ...
Page 281
... friends . Pope was now forty - four years old ; an age at which the mind begins less easily to admit new confidence , and the will to grow less flexible , and when therefore the departure of an old friend is very acutely felt . In the ...
... friends . Pope was now forty - four years old ; an age at which the mind begins less easily to admit new confidence , and the will to grow less flexible , and when therefore the departure of an old friend is very acutely felt . In the ...
Page 451
... friend . " ' It may teach mankind the uncertainty of worldly friendships , to know that Young , either by surviving those he loved , or by outliving their affections , could only recollect the names of two friends , his house- keeper ...
... friend . " ' It may teach mankind the uncertainty of worldly friendships , to know that Young , either by surviving those he loved , or by outliving their affections , could only recollect the names of two friends , his house- keeper ...
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